Badass Bane, Kick-Boxing Catwoman Rock New DarkKnightRises Trailer

As if to serve as a gritty antidote to The Avengers’ colorful fun, the latest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises brings the realness, serving up a relentless-looking Bane and a cat-fighting Selina Kyle.

The trailer for the “epic conclusion” of director Christopher Nolan‘s dark Batman trilogy packs in so many quietly poetic moments it’s hard to capture them all here, but it’s worth a try.

First, there’s Bane. So very, very much awesome Bane, the supervillain played by Tom Hardy. See his henchmen in a brilliant airplane hijacking! Marvel as his wrath sends Gotham’s bridges crashing into the water! Experience chills as he announces: “I’m Gotham’s reckoning” and tells Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), “Your punishment must be more severe.”

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If Bane doesn’t get you going, Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) might. As the new trailer begins, we see her as she’s appeared before — in high-society mode, teasing Bruce Wayne at a fancy ball. She warns him that there is a storm coming, and that he and all his One Percenter friends will get what’s coming to them, presumably in the form of Bane’s can of supervillainy whoop-ass.

But fast-forward a few seconds and she’s remorsefully telling cop John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) that she’s unsure if “they” (Bane’s goons?) killed “him” (Wayne? Commissioner Gordon? This is a little unclear). When Blake asks, “Why would you run? Bane?” and she responds, “You should be as afraid of him as I am,” it’s downright nerve-wracking.

Surprisingly, that’s not even the best part. That’s reserved for the final line of the trailer, which is presumably the same clip that will be playing before screenings of The Avengers, which opens this weekend. Delivered after more tantalizing shots of mass destruction, Wayne imprisonment, and an all-out battle in the streets, there’s Kyle (in full-on Catwoman gear!) getting into a Bat-vehicle saying, “My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.” To which Batman replies, “This isn’t a car.”

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